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Investing in new software may compute to better financial reporting at the City of Penticton.

Can you do something creative every day? And keep it up for a month? “It can be anything from cooking to knitting to baking to painting or carpentry,” said Justine Sawicz, who is co-ordinating the contest for the arts council.

Penticton is turning heads in Canada with a team loaded with eight Minnesotans. The Vees have 40 wins this season, including 28 in a row.

A fire has destroyed several downtown Penticton businesses, including a strip club.

Penticton’s mayor has signalled that brown around town needs to go down, offering a notice of motion Monday that council needs to identify bylaw changes to beautify the city.

A piece of Penticton history went up in smoke when a fire ripped through Slack Alice’s Show Pub and two neighbouring businesses Sunday morning.

Okanagan communities have mostly posted an increase in population, but the speed of growth depends on where you live. Statistics Canada released its 2011 census figures Wednesday, which showed Penticton growing in population by three per cent since the last count.

An announcement that WestJet is considering launching a regional airline could mean the return of direct flights to Calgary from Penticton. “There is an opportunity in the future that WestJet could come with the possibility of an expansion to a regional carrier,” said Penticton Mayor Dan Ashton.

Bambi might be cute, but don’t feed him no matter what. That’s the message Penticton council is sending out to residents after adopting a deer feeding prohibition bylaw on Monday, which forbids residents from purposefully providing food to deer.